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  1. secret santa
    A wood louse is called a "cheeselog" in my neck of the woods. It seems to be quite local to South Oxfordshire, unless you know better.
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    The website says £70 but I wrote £35 into the catalogue at the time - spooky !
  3. secret santa
    I have just sent Pete's and Ian's pictures to Michael for his comments.
  4. secret santa
    I called it Cd straight from Michael's book (without noticing that he had it as S+r) and obverse R because it was sold as obv 12 (R) in Colin Cooke's catalogue (lot 107) for the Tony Crocker sale. I probably never bothered to check the obverse but, as you say, it is so worn as to make it unidentifiable. I will now change it on the basis of the above information - many thanks.
  5. secret santa
    Could you put the reverse up please Pete - I'd like to include this on my varieties website as illustration.
  6. secret santa
    It definitely appears more human
  7. secret santa
    And this one went to Wales.
  8. secret santa
    The customer base for these sorts of coins must be incredibly small ???
  9. secret santa
    That's a great price and it's interesting that 2 bidders bid it up that high. Wonder who bought it ? (KB ?)
  10. secret santa
    I've just seen a better example of the 1921 missing waves:
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    Interesting but not to the tune of £100 !
  13. secret santa
    How long before forged "vaccination passports" are available on Ebay ?
  14. secret santa
    He has now removed the listing. I think it was an honest mistake but it's a pity he didn't check after our first polite interventions. All's well that ends well, though it leaves a few questions about Lockdale's declared results....... And I've just received this message from him: You were correct the item has been took down the correct one relisted later tonight. I am sorry for the confusion.
  15. secret santa
    I do believe that he has mixed his photos up unintentionally but has been unwilling to even consider that it might be his fault.
  16. secret santa
    When you look at Lockdale's catalogue for the auction, every item seems to have a "hammer price" suggesting that everything was sold, which is seemingly not the case. Presumably many of the "hammer prices" are actually the reserve, which was not met ? But it makes Lockdale's look like a very successful auction house. Is there anything we can believe nowadays ???
  17. secret santa
    He has now sent me a message admitting that he might have posted the wrong picture and will check it when he gets back into work on Monday. If so, I'll post details on here but it's no excuse for the foul-mouthed denials that he sent before checking his own work. Apparently, he's getting a lot of abuse so can I ask everyone to hang fire until we hear that he's made a genuine mistake.
  18. secret santa
    His response to me saying that he doesn't own it: "I do own it. Will you people please stop threatening me!" and he's blocked me. Time to bid £1000 on it I think and get him excited.
  19. secret santa
    I, too, have now sent him a message and look forward to an articulate and entertaining response.
  20. secret santa
    I've just done this although it didn't allow me to put in a narrative reason for reporting. I could only pick from lists of preset phrases.
  21. secret santa
    Beware this seller. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1854-Victoria-Penny-PT-AU-Lustre/254791108305?hash=item3b52bbc6d1:g:~aQAAOSwSAtfwMgr The penny he's selling is sitting at home with me as we speak. He's taken the photo from Lockdale's site and is offering it as his own.
  22. secret santa
    Looks a bit like yours, Pete.
  23. secret santa
    For the 1999 edition, only the 4th point (about misaligned colon dots) applies. For the 2001 edition, the 2nd point (1862/1) and 4th point both apply.
  24. secret santa
    Right, I have to correct what I wrote in the 3rd bullet above. On page 41, the top left diagram, the description "Mis-aligned Colon Dots...Type 1" should be followed by the words "(20). The line of dashes shows the normal alignment of Colon Dots". The misaligned colon dots are the ones nearest the edge of the cape and there is the most subtle of differences between 20 and 20A with 20A being slightly nearer the cape. Hope this is clear.
  25. secret santa
    As there was no provenance listed in the DNW sale, it's possible that the vendor did not supply any. He/she may not have had any. It's possible that they came by it by accident, by inheritance, by dishonest means, etc etc. If it were in the state pictured above, a non-numismatist would probably be pleased to clean it up to the shiny state and get over a thousand pounds for it. So, not necessarily an idiot per se but who knows ?
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